With the new Disney/PixarWhat Is CGI Animation? [Technology Explained]What Is CGI Animation? [Technology Explained]Have you ever found yourself sitting in the theater, watching a Pixar film, and contemplating what it is about CGI animation that makes for some of the best children's movies? Let's find out.Read More film Wreck-It Ralph coming out, I’ve been on a little bit of a retro gaming kick. What’s my personal favorite? As cliché as it sounds, that would have to be Super Mario Bros. (with Joust at a close second). However, I recognize that there are several retro games floating around, and actually, I’d love to play them all!

As you might be able to guess, there are quite a few sites out on the Internet that are filled to the brim with retro games10 Video Game-Related Easter Eggs From Google10 Video Game-Related Easter Eggs From GoogleGoogle Docs contains a dragon, YouTube's video player contains a hidden game, and zerglings are waiting to devour your search results when you challenge them to a battle. Over the years, many video game-related Easter...Read More. Fortunately for you, we’ve found a few of them that are worth checking out. So stretch out your hands and grab your quarters – we’re going to the MakeUseOf Internet Arcade.

Nintendo games are my favorite, so this is definitely one of my top sites. Retro Nintendo Games dives into the world of the NES to provide quality games with the retro flair we all love. It appears that the games are ROMs presented in Java, and although there is an option to download, I would do some background checks to make sure it’s safe.

We couldn’t get out of here without throwing the Apple II4 Reasons My Next Notebook PC Will Be A MacBook Air [Opinion]4 Reasons My Next Notebook PC Will Be A MacBook Air [Opinion]I’ve never owned a Mac before, and I never thought I’d be in a position where I intend to buy one. Growing up I was a die-hard Windows user, mainly for the many hours I’d...Read More into the mix. Fortunately, there is an entire site bent on providing old Apple II ROMs for the general public to enjoy. As the site says, almost every Apple II and Apple IIgs game is available to play on this site, so I can’t imagine a situation where you’ll never be bored. Furthermore, I’ve actually set the above link to send you to Oregon Trail. I hope that’s not a problem.

Conclusion

I hope that the above sites are more than enough to satisfy your retro gaming needs, but as always, I am sure that there are many more sites out there pumping out classic games. Furthermore, just give it a few years… The games of today will be the retro games of tomorrow, and at that point, we’ll have holo-sites full of “good old-fashioned” games like Diablo III.

Legal, legal... Well. That is interesting. I'd like to know myself, honestly.

I just wonder if there is a distinction of uploading these games and playing them. Uploading them seems as if it would be illegal, but playing them in-browser (you aren't downloading the actual ROM) could be a different story. Everyone has different ideas, but I'd rather know the solid solution. That might be something for MakeUseOf answers. Really. I don't know.

As far as Tifa? No idea who Tifa Lockhart is, but then again, I don't know many people in my family.

"FireNes is a Firefox extension that allows us to play all the games Nintendo and Gamboy, without the need to download anything, or emulator or roms. To achieve this FireNes uses the web emulator vNes and vGbx. Currently you can play with about 2500 Nintendo games and 1400 GameBoy games. "